I felt compelled to add a few comments to what Ken had to say. I however will not be only using my words, but I will be quoting a speech made by Pastor Phil Snider:

“I worry about the future of our city. Any accurate reading of the Bible should make it clear that gay rights goes against the plain truth of the word of God. As one preacher warns, man oversteps the boundary lines God has drawn by making special rights for gays and lesbians and has taken another step in the direction of inviting the judgment of God upon our land.”

Really, his speech is amazing and I encourage you to look it up on YouTube when you have a spare moment. He starts looking through his paperwork at the podium as he says the following: “When you run into conflict with God’s established order you have trouble. You do not produce harmony. You produce destruction and trouble and our city is in the greatest danger than it is ever been in it’s history. The reason is that we’ve gotten away from the Bible of our forefathers. You see the right of segregation ... I’m sorry — hold on!”

And in what seems to be a moment of embarrassment he adds: “I’m sorry, I’ve brought the wrong notes with me this evening. I’ve borrowed my argument from the wrong century. It turns out what I have been reading to you this whole time is direct quotes from white preachers from the 1950s and the 1960s all in support of racial segregation. All I have done is simply take out the phrase Racial Segregation and substituted it with the phrase ‘Gay Rights.’”

At the end of the day the whole gay marriage debate isn’t even about two people of the same sex marrying. It all comes down to civil rights, spousal benefits and the safety of the LGBT community. There are so many human rights that go hand in hand with marriage.

If we as Christians expect to have our religious rights protected it is our duty to fight for the rights of other minorities, regardless the reason. When we fail to do that we’re really failing ourselves and our community.